Explore Independence, Mississippi, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Independence, Mississippi. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Mississippi or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Independence.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Independence |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County | Tate County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 34.707776 |
| Longitude | -89.807518 |
| Population | 200 |
| Density | 42.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 39117, 38618 |
| Area Code | 601, 769 |
| County Seat | Senatobia |
| School District | Tate County School District |
Independence occupies a quiet expanse of North Mississippi where the terrain yields to the subtle, persistent logic of the inland plains. It lies 13.3 miles southeast of Hernando, MS (from Hernando, MS: bearing 128°T), and is situated 17.8 miles south of Olive Branch. The landscape surrounding Independence is defined by a rhythmic succession of fields and dense woodlands, where the moisture in the air often clings to the heavy leaves of oaks and gums. A mile to the west, the modest channel of Little Beartail Creek carves a thin, shaded corridor through the silt, its movement barely perceptible against the stillness of the afternoon. On the horizon, the faint, jagged silhouette of Cemetery Ridge suggests a distant boundary, though the immediate world remains dominated by the golden, sun-baked earth and the slow, encroaching reach of kudzu along the fence lines.
Independence maintains a character shaped by the steady, labor-intensive cycles of agriculture that have long dictated the pace of life in this corner of the state. The economy here remains tethered to the productivity of the soil, with the daily rhythm of the local inhabitants synchronized to the seasonal demands of the harvest. Families who have worked these tracts for generations navigate the same paths as their predecessors, occasionally venturing toward the quiet waters of Suent Lake for respite or spending weekends near the quiet trails of Unknown Park. Even as the modern world intrudes with the hum of distant transit, Independence retains a deliberate, introspective quality, as if the land itself demands a certain patience from those who dwell upon it.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Independence, Mississippi. Coordinates: 34.707776, -89.807518. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Independence includes the ZIP code (39117, 38618), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of Tate County (Senatobia), and school district assignment (Tate County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |